Federal immigration authorities have recently taken into custody three illegal immigrants in Massachusetts charged with crimes.
1. Charged With Second-Degree Child Molestation-Sexual Assault
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston arrested a Dominican illegal immigrant named Belardis Tapia Gonzalez on November 18. He has been charged with second-degree child molestation-sexual assault in Rhode Island, according to an ICE press release.
“A person is guilty of a second degree child molestation sexual assault if he or she engages in sexual contact with another person fourteen (14) years of age or under,” Rhode Island General Laws state.
Tapia Gonzalez entered the United States illegally around July 2021, according to federal immigration authorities.
The Fugitive Operations Team of the Boston office of Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested the man in Lynn, Massachusetts. Federal law enforcement officers served him with a notice to appear before a U.S. Department of Justice immigration judge. He was in ICE custody as of Thursday, November 21.
“ERO Boston is tasked with keeping our communities safe from potentially dangerous noncitizens — particularly those accused of crimes so egregious as child sexual assault,” ERO Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde said in the written statement. “Our officers apprehended Tapia, who has been accused of terrible crimes, after we discovered that a court in Warwick, Rhode Island, released him on bail.”
Baez entered the United States illegally at an unknown date time and location, according to federal immigration authorities.
However, the Northborough Police Department arrested him on a felony charge of larceny over $1,200 and a misdemeanor charge of providing false identification to law enforcement charges on June 19, 2024, according to the online docket from Westborough District Court. The next day, a judge granted him bail but ordered him held when he didn’t pay it.
The Worcester County House of Corrections in West Boylston, which held Baez for one day, notified Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston that the facility would release him. Federal immigration authorities arrested Baez on June 20 at the jail.
ICE officials served him with a notice to appear before a federal Department of Justice immigration judge following his arraignment for the larceny and identification charges. Then, on September 16. 2024, a judge ordered him removed to the Dominican Republic. On October 8, federal immigration authorities removed him.
Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston lodged an immigration detainer with Northampton District Court, which did not honor it.
Castro entered the country illegally at an unknown date, time, and location, but a U.S. Department of Justice immigration judge ordered his removal on March 22, 2023. Yet Castro remained in America. Then, on January 26, 2024, Northampton police arrested the man on charges of assault and battery of a family or household member.
Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston lodged an immigration detainer against him with the Northampton District Court, which followed the man to the Hampden County Correctional Center, where he was detained after his arraignment. However, the state district court released him on February 12, 2024, without telling federal immigration authorities.
On October 24 a Northampton District Court judge dismissed the assault-and-battery charges, after prosecutors decided not to press the case, according to online state court records.
Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston’s Fugitive Operations Team on November 12 arrested Castro on a Northampton public roadway.
“ERO Boston is committed to keeping our communities safe, and we do that in partnership with local law enforcement,” ERO Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde said in the release. “But the bottom line is that immigration detainers are public safety tools. We use them to keep potentially dangerous noncitizens off our streets, and when officials don’t honor them, it puts our friends, families and neighbors at risk.”
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